Re: Help: serial port/minicom

[Bruce Sass <bsass@ecn.ab.ca>]

Hmmm,

I don't do X, and therefore don't know about any differences between an
xterm and the console.

The only way I can get minicom to fire up without error messages, yet
not work, is if I tell it to use a serial port that doesn't have a modem
attached to it.  i.e., I have modems on ttyS0 and ttyS1, if I configure
minicom to use ttyS2 it starts up ok but nothing happens. 

All I can think of is for you to triple check that your serial port does
have a modem hanging off of it and that you are talking to it at a speed
it will respond to... beyond that I am at a loss with what more you can
do.


Good Luck,

	Bruce

-- 
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 daishi@CS.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
> 
> Actually, this is getting weirder.
> I've managed to get minicom to work when invoked from an xterm,
> but it still *doesn't* work when invoked from console.
> What does this mean? Is/was this all some terminal problem?
> (How might I go about fixing the problem is that's the case?)
> Thanks,
> d